“What’s scary,” says Gibson, “is that it only takes the whim of a teenager to take a site like this off line,” explaining that denial of service attacks are relatively simple to engineer.

They never fail to surprise me with attempts to build hype. No media, it takes more than just the whim of a teenager to pull this off. Any typical, randomly selected, teenager wouldn't have a clue on how to go about this.

Shoot. A bit off topic, but at the same time completely relevant. After looking at this, I checked their stock (I used to have a small amount of stocks in BAC). Check this out. Huge drop today. Kind of interesting IMO.

mShred wrote:Shoot. A bit off topic, but at the same time completely relevant. After looking at this, I checked their stock (I used to have a small amount of stocks in BAC). Check this out. Huge drop today. Kind of interesting IMO.

something's going on, there must be a reason people are running scared. or its just more hype. we'll see when it boils over.